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Galactia rudolphioides

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Grisebach) Bentham & Hooker f. ex C. Wright

Common Names

• Pois Rouge (Guadeloupe)
• Pois Bâtard Raziers (Martinique)

Geographical Habitats

• Bahamas
• E. Cuba
• Turks & Caicos Islands

Natural Habitats

• Montane grassland
• montane forest

Flowering Times

• Jan (Bahamas)
• Jun-Aug (Cuba)

Fruiting Times

• Sep (Cuba)

Vine or twining shrub with woody hairy stems becoming glabrescent. 3-foliolate glabrescent leaves to 50mm x 25mm. Many-flowered racemes to 200mm long, pilose toothed calyx to 15mm long, red, pink or purple corolla, standard petal to 24mm x 13mm, claw to 3.5mm, wings 5mm wide, purple spotted keel to 5mm wide. Rufo-tomentose legume to 60mm x 10mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• RSNRV
• CPC
• JAA
• ILDIS
• SAFIO
• Plantae Wrightianae